Optimized Vehicle System: Drive, Fly & Traffic AI (No Rigging)

Stop rigging skeletal meshes. Start building vehicles in seconds—then populate

your world with hundreds of intelligent AI traffic.

The Optimized Vehicle System is a standalone, high-performance physics plugin

for Unreal Engine 5 that lets you create ground vehicles, propeller planes,

helicopters, or hybrid VTOLs using only Static Meshes. Now updated with an

advanced AI Traffic System, articulated trailer physics, MetaSound integration,

and 29 ready-to-use vehicle blueprints.

Import the plugin, open the included city level, and hit Play. It just works.

📚 [Link to Documentation] | [Video Demo] | [Original Video Showcase] | [Playable Demo]

🔥 Why Choose This Over Native Chaos Vehicles?

1. Zero Rigging Required: Create a Pawn → Add Static Meshes → Add Components. A

fully simulated vehicle in under 2 minutes.

2. High-Performance Architecture: Custom Async Physics Tick interacts directly

with the Chaos Solver on the physics thread—up to 30% faster than standard

vehicle classes.

3. True Modular Design:

- Modular Core: The brain of your vehicle.

- Modular Engine: Torque curves, gear ratios, and MetaSound RPM audio.

- Modular Wheels: Raycast suspension with arcade-friendly friction and

trailer-hitch support.

- Modular Rotors/Props: Flight with spool-up mechanics and stabilization.

- Modular Damage: Real-time vertex deformation and component failure.

🚗 Complete AI Traffic System (Mass Entity)

Populate your world with hundreds of intelligent vehicles running efficiently on

Unreal's Mass Entity Framework.

- Realistic Behavior: Intelligent Driver Model (IDM) for safe following,

physics-based braking, and organic speed variation.

- NEW Overtaking System: AI dynamically detects slow-moving traffic and

performs lane-change maneuvers to overtake.

- NEW Command System: Easily trigger AI to Follow/Chase an Actor or Move To

Location via Blueprints.

- Intersection Logic: Advanced right-of-way detection and deadlock prevention

at multi-lane crossings.

- Performance at Scale: Supports 150+ active physics vehicles simultaneously.

🛩️ Enhanced Flight & Propeller Damage

- Fixed-Wing & Multi-Rotor: Create everything from C130-style cargo planes to

agile mini-helis.

- Component Damage: Propellers and rotors are now destructible. Damaging these

causes planes to lose lift or helicopters to lose control/stability, leading

to physics-based crashes.

- Flight AI: Automated takeoff, cruise, landing, and air obstacle avoidance

(7-direction sphere sweep).

💥 Advanced Physics & Damage

- Trailer Physics: Support for articulated trucks and towing mechanics.

- Tactical Tank Tracks: (Work in Progress) Includes high-performance tank

track physics for smooth traversal over rough terrain.

- Mesh Deformation: Impacts deform geometry at the vertex level asynchronously

to prevent frame hitches.

- Improved Drifting: Retuned slip curves for responsive, high-speed drifting.

🔊 High-Fidelity Audio

- MetaSound Integration: All ground vehicles utilize MetaSounds for dynamic,

RPM-based engine audio.

- Included Assets: Ships with a library of high-quality engine loops and

pre-configured MetaSound Blueprints.

🏙️ Included Content — 29 Ready-to-Use Vehicles

Air: BP_Airplane · BP_BushPlane · BP_C130 · BP_Cirrus · BP_Heli · BP_MiniHeli ·

BP_ModularHybridRotor

Heavy & Utility: BP_Scania · BP_DeliveryTruck · BP_TowTruck · BP_Firetruck ·

BP_GarbageTruck · BP_Flatbed · BP_CityBus · BP_Ambulance · BP_CommercialPickup ·

BP_Van

Specialty & Sport: BP_Tank (WIP Tracks) · BP_Mustang · BP_DriftCar ·

BP_PoliceCar · BP_Taxi · BP_Baja · BP_Offroader · BP_GolfCart · BP_ToyCar ·

BP_TukTuk

City Environment (Free): Full city with buildings, complete road network with

pre-baked ZoneGraph lanes, and a pre-configured traffic spawner.

(Note: 2 and 3-wheeled vehicles are currently being reworked and will be

re-added in a future update).